Socialist Register 2015 : transforming classes / edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo.

Includes bibliographical references.

Cover; Contents; Preface; Precarious migrants: gender, race and the social reproduction of a global working class; The language of class in China; India's landmark election; Bringing class back in: informality in Bangalore; NUMSA, the working class and socialist politics in South Africa; From Gezi resistance to Soma massacre: capital accumulation and class struggle in Turkey; The Egyptian workers' movement before and after the 2011 popular rising; Transnational solidarity? The European working class in the eurozone crisis; The new morphology of the working class in contemporary Brazil.

Class transformations in Chile's capitalist revolutionThe Olympic ruling class; The middle class in Hollywood; What has become of the professional managerial class?; Class theory and class politics today; Labour and the left in the USA: a symposium; The politics of US labour: paralysis and possibilities; Forging new class solidarities: organizing hospital workers; New working-class organizations and the social movement left; The crisis of labour and the left in the United States.

For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in London in 1964, SR continues their commitment to independent and thought-provoking analysis, free of dogma or sectarian positions. Transforming Classes is a compendium of socialist thought today and a clarifying account of class struggle in the early twenty-first-century, from China to the United States.